DEVAH PAGER Department of Sociology Princeton University 157 Wallace Hall Princeton, NJ 08544 EMAIL: [email protected] Education 2002 Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Dissertation: The Mark of a Criminal Record Winner of the American Sociological Association Dissertation Award, 2003 1997 M.A., Sociology, Stanford University 1996 M.A., Sociology, University of Cape Town, South Africa 1993 B.A., Psychology, University of California-Los Angeles Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, College Honors, UCLA Chancellor's Service Award Employment 2004- Princeton University Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology Faculty Associate, Office of Population Research 2002-04 Northwestern University Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research 2002-03 Fulbright Scholar, Paris, France Centre de Recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Penales Grants and Fellowships 2006-10 NIH Mentored Scientist Award (K01), “Discrimination in the Lives of Young Disadvantaged Men,” $762,716. 2006-10 NSF CAREER Award, “Toward Improving the Conceptualization and Measurement of Discrimination,” $401,000 2006-10 WT Grant Scholars Award, “Barriers in the Pathway to Adulthood: The Role of Discrimination in the Lives of Young Disadvantaged Men,” $300,000 2005-07 National Institute of Justice, “Investigating Prisoner Reentry: The Impact of Conviction Status on the Employment Prospects of Young Men.” (PI, with co-PI Bruce Western), $275,587 2003-06 National Science Foundation, “Discrimination in Low-Wage Labor Markets.” (with Bruce Western), $209,126 2004-06 JEHT Foundation, “Employment Discrimination in New York City,” (with Bruce Western), $150,737 2005 NSF-Funded Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences, Special Competition, “Safety Net for Whom? Attitudes about Government Assistance for the Unemployed” 2002-03 Fulbright Grant, Paris, France, “The Republican Ideal? Ethnic Minorities and the Criminal Justice System in Contemporary France.” 2005 NSF-Funded Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences, “Who Deserves a Helping Hand? Race, Crime, and Public Opinion.” 2001-02 National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant. 2001-02 National Institute of Justice, Dissertation Grant 2001-02 Soros Foundation/Open Society Institute, “Survey of Milwaukee Employers.” 2001-02 Joyce Foundation, “The Mark of a Criminal Record.” 2001-02 University of Wisconsin Dissertation Fellowship 1997-01 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for Ph.D. studies 1998-00 Vilas Professional Development Grant for Graduate Studies 1999 Public Policy Fellowship from Columbia Teacher’s College, June-August 1996-97 Stanford University Graduate Fellowship 1995-96 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship (University of Cape Town, South Africa). Books Forthcoming Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration. Forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press [Fall 2007] Scholarly Articles Forthcoming “Two Strikes and You’re Out: The Intensification of Racial and Criminal Stigma,” in David Weiman, Shawn Bushway, and Michael Stoll (Eds). New York: Russell Sage. In progress “The Dynamics of Discrimination,” in David Harris and Ann Lin, Colors of Poverty. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (invited paper). 2007 “The Use of Field Experiments for Studies of Employment Discrimination: Contributions, Critiques, and Directions for the Future,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 609: 104-133. 2006 “Evidence-Based Public Policy for Successful Prisoner Reentry.” Crime and Public Policy 5(3): 501-511. 2005 “Walking the Talk: What Employers Say Versus What They Do.” American Sociological Review 70(3): 355-380 (with Lincoln Quillian) 2 2005 “Double Jeopardy: Race, Crime, and Getting a Job.” Wisconsin Law Review 2005(2):617-660. 2005 “Using a Research Article to Facilitate a Deep Structure Understanding of Discrimination.” Teaching Sociology 33(4) (with Rebecca Bortd) 2004 “Race-Ethnicity, Social Background, and Grade Retention,” in Herbert J. Walberg, Arthur J. Reynolds, and Margaret C. Wang (Eds.) Can Unlike Students Learn Together? Grade Retention, Tracking, and Grouping. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, pp. 97-114 (Robert M. Hauser and Solon S. Simmons) 2004 “High School Dropout, Race-Ethnicity, and Social Background from the 1970s to the 1990s,”in Gary Orfield (Ed) Dropouts in America: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press (Robert M. Hauser and Solon S. Simmons) 2003 “The Mark of a Criminal Record.” American Journal of Sociology 108(5):937-975. Reprinted in: Down to Earth Sociology. 2007. Jim Henslin (Ed.) Race, Law and Society. 2006. Ian Haney Lopez (Ed.) Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity. 2006. Charles Gallagher (Ed.) Sociological Odyssey: Contemporary Readings in Introductory Sociology. 2006. Adler, Peter and Patti Adler (Eds). CA: Thomson Wadsworth. Crime and Criminal Justice. 2006. William T. Lyons, Jr. (Ed). UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited. Constructions of Deviance, 5th Edition. 2006. Adler, Peter and Patti Adler (Eds). CA: Wadsworth. Focus. 2004: 23(2). Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2001 “The Structure of Disadvantage: Individual and Occupational Determinants of the Black-White Wage Gap.” American Sociological Review: 66(4):542-567 (with Eric Grodsky). 2001 “Black Neighbors, Higher Crime? The Role of Racial Stereotypes in Evaluations of Neighborhood Crime.” American Journal of Sociology: 107(3): 717-767 (with Lincoln Quillian) Reviews and Other Publications: 2005 “Race at Work.” Report for New York City Human Rights Commission 50th Anniversary Conference 2005 Book review of Measuring Racial Discrimination. Social Forces 83(4):1780- 1781. 3 2004 Chicago Tribune, Op-ed (with Jeff Manza) ‘Making Good on the Promise of a “Second Chance.”’ April 12. 2003 “Blacks and Ex-Cons Need Not Apply.” Contexts 2(4): 58-59. Work In Progress Pager, Devah and Bruce Western. “Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets.” Pager, Devah and Jeremy Freese. “Safety Net for Whom?: Race, Assessments of Culpability, and Attitudes about Public Assistance for the Unemployed.” Quillian, Lincoln and Devah Pager. “Estimating Risk: Biased Social Perception and the Likelihood of Criminal Victimization.” Pager, Devah. “The Republican Ideal? Ethnic Minorities and the Criminal Justice System in Contemporary France.” Awards 2003 American Sociological Association Dissertation of the Year Award 2003 Dissertation Award, University of Wisconsin Department of Sociology 2002 American Sociological Association Graduate Student Paper Award from the Section on Sociology of Law, for “The Mark of a Criminal Record.” 2002 American Sociological Association Graduate Student Paper Award from the Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance, for “The Mark of a Criminal Record.” 2002 Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award for an Outstanding Scholarly Contribution to the Social Sciences, for “The Mark of a Criminal Record.” 2001 American Sociological Association Graduate Student Paper Award from the Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work for, “The Structure of Disadvantage: Individual and Occupational Determinants of the Black-White Wage Gap,” co-authored with Eric Grodsky. 1998 Peter New Graduate Student Paper Award for “The Interaction of Structure and Culture in South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Schools: Teachers’ Perspectives.” 1998 Distinction, Preliminary Exam in Social Stratification 1999 Distinction, Preliminary Exam in Race & Ethnic Studies Invited Seminars and Presentations 2006-07 (current or scheduled) University of Cape Town, Department of Sociology, September 2006 NYU Law School, Hoffinger Colloquium on Criminal Justice, September 2006 Yale Law School, Law, Economics, and Organization Workshop, October 2006 4 Harvard University, Department of Economics, Labor Seminar, October 2006 Brown University, Dept of Economics, Race and Inequality Workshop, Oct 2006 CUNY Graduate Center, Department of Sociology, October 2006 NYU Center for Advanced Social Science Research, November 2006 USC Law School, Center for Law, Economics, and Organization, May 2007 UC-Davis, Department of Sociology, May 2007 2005-06 Stanford Law School, October 2005 Columbia University, Urbanism and Public Health, October 2005 NAACP Civil Rights Conference, October 2005 University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology, November 2005 Columbia University, Wealth and Inequality Seminar, November 2005 UCLA, Population Center, January 2006 Metropolitan College of New York, January 2006 Princeton University, Office of Population Research, February 2006 Cornell University, Department of Sociology, April 2006 MIT, Sloan School of Management, April 2006 University of Pennsylvania (conference on young black men), April 2006 EEOC Regional Meeting, April 2006 New York City Council, Committee on Civil Rights, April 2006 Ohio State University, Department of Sociology, May 2006 Vera Institute of Justice, June 2006 2004-05 University of Pennsylvania, Department of Sociology, April 2005 University of Maryland, School of Criminal Justice, April 2005 University of Washington, Department of Sociology, March 2005 University of Michigan, Department of Sociology, February 2005 Rutgers University, Department of Sociology, February 2005 Princeton University, Social Psychology Seminar, January 2005 Princeton University, Policy Research Institute for the Region, January 2005 2002-04 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, July 2004 The New Legal Realism Conference, Invited Panel,